Changing patient preferences toward better trial recruitment: an ethical analysis.

ABSTRACT: While randomized controlled trials are essential to health research, many of these trials fail to recruit enough participants. Approaching recruitment through the lens of behavioral science can help trialists to understand influences on the decision to participate and use them to increase recruitment. Although this approach is promising, the use of behavioral influences during recruitment is in tension with the ethical principle of respect for persons, as at least some of these influences could be used to manipulate potential participants. In this paper, we examine this tension by discussing two types of behavioral influences: one example involves physician recommendations, and the other involves framing of information to exploit cognitive biases. We argue that despite the apparent tension

SUBMITTER: Al P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10044713 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature